Custom Cartoon Portraits, Illustrated Gifts & Animated Greeting Art I create custom cartoon portraits, illustrated gift artworks and animated greeting pieces for people, families, companies, teams and special occasions. Some are intimate one-off portraits. Others are larger scenes built around a couple, a group of friends, a band, a retirement,
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Mein Nebelspalter — 43 Jahre Cartoons, Titelbilder und Schweizer Satire Als meine ersten Cartoons 1983 im Nebelspalter erschienen, war ich 16 Jahre alt. Angefangen hatte ich allerdings schon mit 14, Zeichnungen an die Redaktion zu schicken. Der damalige Chefredaktor Werner Meier sah irgendwann in einer meiner Sendungen offenbar einen Funken und bezeichnete
Cartoonist Schweiz — Editorial Cartoons für den Nebelspalter und über vier Jahrzehnte satirische Illustration Diese Serie von fünf farbigen Editorial Cartoons entstand für die Septemberausgabe 2025 des Schweizer Satiremagazins Nebelspalter. Die Zeichnungen begleiteten den Artikel „Bin ich ein Heuchler? – Der grosse Ehrlichkeitstest“ von Stefan Kämpfen, eine satirische Selbstprüfung über
Top Source Wine Label Redesign — A New Visual Identity for Three Washington State Wines In 2025, Top Source asked me to revisit the visual identity of its Washington State wine range: Walla Walla Valley Syrah, Columbia Valley Syrah-Grenache and Columbia Valley Sauvignon Blanc. I had designed the earlier labels
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Explainer Video Full Pipeline, One Creator: A Studio Model for Clear Visual Communication When the UK charity 52 Lives commissioned me to create a hand-drawn explainer video for its School of Kindness initiative, the task was not simply to animate a script. The real challenge was translation: how to turn
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ModicumEditions Illustrateur & Artiste à Montpellier, Claret et dans le Pic Saint-Loup Je suis Ian David Marsden, illustrateur, artiste et directeur artistique, installé à Claret, au nord de Montpellier, dans le Pic Saint-Loup. Je travaille depuis mon atelier pour des entreprises, institutions, éditeurs et agences en France et à l’international,
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The French Cartoon Wolf of Pic Saint-Loup (Near Montpellier) Why France (and the whole world) Fell in Love with a Hand-Drawn Wolf If you somehow missed the extraordinary success of Intermarché’s animated short Le Loup — a tender, hand-crafted commercial about a wolf who becomes vegetarian — then you truly have not
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Cozy Holiday Wishes – Santa & Rudolph Christmas Card Illustration | Ian David Marsden As the year draws to a close and winter wraps the world in its quiet magic, I wanted to take a moment to send you my warmest wishes. Here is my Christmas card to you —
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Gezeichnet 2025 Schweizer Pressezeichner & Massen – Doppel-Ausstellung in Bern Ich freue mich sehr, dieses Jahr gleich bei zwei Ausstellungen in Bern vertreten zu sein – beide eröffneten am 12. Dezember 2025 und zeigen, wie vielseitig Illustration, Satire und visuelle Kommunikation sein können. 1. Gezeichnet 2025 – Die besten Schweizer
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Midi Libre : portrait d’un illustrateur, dessinateur de presse et membre de Cartooning for Peace près de Montpellier Publié le 1 décembre 2025 Le journal Midi Libre a consacré un article à mon parcours d’illustrateur en France, de dessinateur de presse, d’auteur BD, de créateur de vidéos explicatives illustrées et
Sending a Comic Book to Robert Crumb Is Like Sending a Mixtape to Mozart A Cartoonist, a Postcard, and a Lesson About Steamships By Ian David Marsden Substack Article Link In 2006, I committed an act of transatlantic defection, trading the over-caffeinated bustle of the United States for a tiny,
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Illustration de couverture et dos de cartes pour Les 9 du Pic, jeu local du Pic Saint-Loup Les 9 du Pic est un jeu de cartes local consacré au territoire du Pic Saint-Loup. J’ai réalisé l’illustration principale du jeu, utilisée sur la couverture du paquet et au dos des cartes
RITZENHOFF Beer Glass Design: Viking Weizenbier Glass by Ian David Marsden This Viking Weizenbier glass design was created for the RITZENHOFF Designer Collection as part of my wider work in collectible glassware illustration and product design for RITZENHOFF. The project combined character design, product illustration, packaging-aware artwork and decorative design
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Animated eCards for GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com This page presents a large series of hand-drawn animated eCards created for 1&1 Mail & Media Applications SE, including GMX, WEB.DE and mail.com. The illustrated digital greetings were used across major email platforms and reached a very large European audience. The project combined
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Hair is Important — Animated Awareness Campaign for HairLoss.com Hair is Important was an animated awareness campaign created for HairLoss.com, addressing the emotional and psychological impact of hair loss through a series of short illustrated films. The campaign explored subjects including alopecia, trichotillomania, androgenetic hair loss, cancer-related hair loss, self-image,
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